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Almost fired for insubordination, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido find themselves demoted, exiled from the elite Hawks unit and dispatched to the leafy streets of Stellenbosch. Working a missing persons report on student Callie de Bruin is not the level of work they are used to, but it's all they get. And soon, it takes a dangerous, deeply disturbing turn. Stellenbosch is beautiful, but its economy has been ruined by one man. Jasper Boonstra and his gigantic corporate fraud have crashed the local property market, just when estate agent Sandra Steenberg desperately needs a big sale. Bringing up twins and supporting her academic husband, she is facing disaster. Then she gets a call. From Jasper Boonstra, fraudster, sexual predator and owner of a superb property worth millions, even now. For Sandra, the stakes are high and about to get way higher. For Benny Griessel, clinging to sobriety and the relationship that saved his life, the truth about Callie can only lead to more trouble.
Juta Enslin is ’n spor tredakteur en aan oefen verslaaf. Tot meningitis
haar by die dood laat omdraai en haar gehoor en balans aantas. Sy is
skielik van almal om haar af hanklik en voel sy het alles verloor.
Met haar prokureur se hulp, vind Lizzy onder ’n nuwe identiteit ’n
toevlug op ’n plaas by die see. Daar versorg sy die visser shuisies en
bly naweke in die eienaar, Reuben, se huis terwyl hy in Mauritius is.
Karolien Watermeyer het haar eie patisserie in Kaapstad en geniet haar
lewe. Dis net die liefde wat kort. Niemand kon haar nog laat voel soos
Stefan Bosman wat haar op haar sestiende verjaardag gesoen het nie.
Ellie Kent longs to belong
Min weet die staatsamptenare Pixley en Joubert wat op hulle wag toe Minister hulle na ’n vergadering genaamd “Removal of Monuments” ontbied. Dié twee amptenare se agtergrond is so uiteenlopend soos kan kom: Pixley is afkomstig van die Zoeloe-adelstand, terwyl Joubert glo van sy betoorgrootmoeder se kant afstam van generaal Piet Joubert. Minister se opdrag: Al die apartheid- en koloniale standbeelde, simbole en monumente moet verskuif word. Pixley en Joubert moet deur die land reis en die ongewenste monumente besoek, die situasie evalueer, en dan met ’n plan vorendag kom oor hoe dit gedoen sal word. Die tydsberekening vir die toer is nie goed vir Joubert nie: Sy siek pa (Pompies, wat op sy dag ’n waterwyser was) trek by hom en sy vrou, Alet, in. Alet is ’n medium en nou met Pompies in die huis, maak Joubert se ma se gees ook haar verskyning. Ook vir Pixley is die tyd nie eintlik geleë nie: Hy is nie seker waar hy staan met sy droomvrou, Memory, nie. Die Rwandese kunstenaar uit Nederland wat hy, toe hy haar vir die eerste keer ’n snoekerstok sien vashou, geweet het kán naai. Soos wat Pixley en Joubert vorder met hulle toer op soek na ’n geskiedenis waarvan sommiges eerder wil vergeet, kom besoek hulle persoonlike geskiedenisse hulle ook. Geheime word onthul, maar nog meer vrae en raaisels ontstaan.
When not caring for his ailing mother, twenty-three-year-old Damon can be found swimming laps at the Sea Point Pavillion. Here he meets the confident Nico, who immediately charms him back to his home. Damon is torn between dealing with his mother’s terminal illness and keeping his sexuality a secret from her. His desire to be truthful is tested when her health takes a turn for the worse, forcing him to choose between his young lover and an unspeakable promise to help end her life. A tender portrait of caregiving, the longing for intimacy and the heartbreak of letting go, Salt Water Pool Boy is a sensual exploration of love and loss charting a young man’s journey from Cape Town to Rome to Paris, from working on a film set in Cinecittŕ and obsessing over a male prostitute, to trying to salvage his long-term relationship by searching for intimacy in a string of one-night stands. When a casual hookup threatens to open old wounds, Damon realises he has yet to fully come to terms with his troubled past.
Julia is die kamerprokureur in Izak Marais se regspraktyk op
Worcester. Wanneer hy die oggend voor ’n groot hofsaak ineenstort,
moet Julia dringend sake beredder – ten spyte van die feit dat sy
gesweer het sy sit haar voete nooit weer in ’n landdroshof nie.
Om dinge nog meer te kompliseer is Julia heimlik daarvan oortuig dat
die aangeklaagde skuldig is aan moord.
Robyn het alles wat ’n meisie kan begeer. As sy net verlief was op die man waarmee almal verwag sy gaan trou. Eers toe Connor in haar lewe verskyn, weet sy wat sy misgeloop het. Alles wat ’n meisie maar kan begeer, dit het Robyn. Skoonheid, kreatiwiteit, geld en ’n gesogte beroep. Boonop kan sy binnekort die vrou wees van ’n man wat self skatryk is en met die huwelik sal haar gesin se sakebelange verder bevorder word. Dis nou te se as hulle kan ooreenkom oor ’n troudatum, iets waartoe sy haar tot dusver nog nie kon bring nie omdat sy heimlik nie seker is of sy op hom verlief is nie. In hierdie kritieke stadium verskyn Connor asof uit die niet in haar kantoordeur. Hy wil he sy moet ’n ontmoeting met haar pa vir hom reel. Eers toe Robyn nie daarin slaag nie, besef sy haar pa het al die jare ’n geheim in hom omgedra, iets wat reelreg bots met die etiek wat hy Robyn en haar susters ingeprent het. Die gevoelens wat Robyn vir Connor begin ontwikkel het, is gewoon ’n onmoontlikheid want hy blyk haar pa se aartsvyand te wees en sy wil ook nie haar pa geruineer sien nie. Toe gebeur die ondenkbare en haar lewe verander in ’n oogwink in die soort bestaan wat sy haar nooit eens sou kon voorstel nie. Nie dat sy ongelukkig is nie, maar so ...?
But Deliver Us From Evil tells the story of two young women whose lives converge at a crucial juncture. The story opens in 1870, when Nthebolang’s father is unjustly accused of being a witch and sentenced to death. After he has been ritually thrown off a high cliff, Nthebolang and her mother are forced to flee. Beatrice, a fair-skinned Koranna girl, has lost her parents to captors in ongoing conflicts with the white settlers. When she moves to the small village of Nstweng, she meets Nthebolang and the two strike up an unlikely friendship. Here, a tightly menacing tale plays out. When Nthebolang’s lover is accused of witchcraft, it seems as if her childhood is repeating itself all over again. Will she be able to save him, or will he meet the same fate as her father? And is Beatrice a friend in whom Nthebolang should place her trust, or not?
Lester Walbrugh is from Grabouw in the Western Cape. His acclaimed short stories have been published in, among others, Short.Sharp.Stories’s Die Laughing, Short Story Day Africa’s anthologies, New Contrast and most recently, Hair: Weaving and Unpicking Stories of Identity. He has lived in the UK and Japan and is currently back in his hometown, working on his first novel. Let It Fall Where It Will is Lester Walbrugh’s debut collection of stories. Set in the Cape and Japan, the stories showcase the stunning versatility of the author. Ranging from witty to poignant, they capture a fascinating diversity of voices and fearlessly explore contemporary topics of identity and sexuality as well as South Africa’s deeply troubled past. A few employ magic realism to great effect. The book’s epigraph and title were inspired by Adam Small’s poem, ‘Die Here het gaskommel’.
Juliëtte geniet haar werk as juffrou en sy en haar trouman, Lodewijk,
beplan om verloof te raak. Dis nou tot haar grootword-boetie, Arendt,
onverwags uit Frankryk terugkeer.
Emma keer ná sestien jaar na Silver Creek Ranch terug, salig onbewus
van die chaos wat sy op die plaas veroorsaak. Sy was James, die eienaar
se oudste seun, se jeugliefde, maar hy het nou ’n ander meisie. Emma en
James het albei verander, en hul onskuldige kinderliefde verander
stadigaan in iets onstuimiger.
Elle and Brent Mullen have it all: two delightful children, more than enough money and a perfectly-restored Victorian home in the plush green suburbs of Cape Town. But appearances can be deceiving. Brent’s business decisions continue to disappoint, embittered by mistrust and entitlement. Elle - a social worker by choice - is unhappy, trying (and failing) to bridge the divide between two worlds of privilege and poverty. Until she meets her next case, Ethan who, at twelve-years-old, has seen it all. Born into a family of gangsters, life through his eyes reveals a pained struggle to defy his father’s expectatations. In a city run by gangsters, Elle, Ethan and Brent find themselves drawn into a web of betrayal, where a wicked plot twist reveals how far each will go to get what they want.
'n Handvol sjefs by ’n meesterklas in die boendoes. ’n Vrou se lyk in die meer. ’n Privaat speurder wat moet vra: Wie het sy mes in vir wie? Lake Panic is die perfekte plek vir ’n verfyningskursus vir ses beroemde sjefs. Só beroemd dat hulle beskerming benodig. ’n Taak vir Beer Henning – privaat speurder, vryskuttatoeëerder, ’n man met ’n verlede. Beer het sy hande vol met:
Wie het ’n moord opgedis? En wat het die storie van die geheimsinnige meermin van Lake Panic met alles te doen?
What is the cost of giving a gift? What is the cost of receiving one? At eleven years old, Julian Flint prefers to remain invisible, safe inside the architecture of adults provided by his mother, his uncle and his aunt.But when his mother, Emma, a celebrated sculptor, takes them all on a family holiday to a hotel by the sea, he meets the captivating and irreverent Clare and everything he thought he knew begins to shift – setting off a chain of events that will determine each of their fates. From the author of The Dream House and The White Room comes Craig Higginson’s most gripping and nuanced novel to date. Moving from the lush beaches of uMhlanga Rocks to the stark midwinter wastes of Johannesburg and the rich and strange coral reefs of Mauritius, this masterfully plotted novel explores the fault lines between loyalty and betrayal, innocence and accountability, blindness and perception, entrapment and flight. The Book of Gifts dives into the deepest and most hazardous reaches of human consciousness in order to catch the brightest fish.
Pop se hande staan vir min verkeerd, maar op die vooraand van haar
vyftigste verjaardag is sy moedeloos en bemoerd. Sy is ’n vreemdeling
vir haarself en almal soek ’n hap van haar. Haar dobbelverslaafde man,
Jan, niksnut van ʼn seun, Evan, die verarmde kleinhoewe en die
versorging van haar hoenders druk swaar op haar skouers.
Lumé Gous het ’n spesifieke olie nodig vir die parfuum wat sy maak. Die
enigste plek waar sy dit kan kry, is op Neil Mulder se plaas.
Celestine de Peronne se susters verwyl hul tyd met borduurwerkies, mooimaaksessies en dagdrome oor toekomstige mans, maar sy droom van om eendag die eienares van Lavoisier, die familieplaas, te wees. Sy bestuur reeds haar pa se plaas, teel perde, plant wingerde aan en maak wyn. Haar pa stel ’n aantreklike en sjarmante Fransman, Argonne de Lattre, as stalmeester aan, maar hy verkies meisies soos haar susters. Hy is die eerste man wat haar soen; haar kop laat duisel. Hy vra haar om te kies; dis of hy of Lavoisier, en dis die moeilikste besluit van haar lewe.
Skye is looking for normal. She grew up different and it rankles. Home isn't normal; her mom isn't normal. Her brother, beloved as he is, isn't quite normal, either. Her marriage was kind of normal (Cam is a wealthy, handsome man who's nice enough) and now it's a dumpster fire. And look at South Africa—entirely NOT normal. She's got PTSD and she's in mourning. She doesn't know who she is or what she wants. She tries to anchor herself to tangible things: to her cooking, to her neighbour's children, to sex. But as she relives her past and tries to plan her future, she feels increasingly dislocated. Skye escapes when things get overwhelming, and realises almost too late that she's about to make everything worse.
Zandile the resolute continues the story of the eight Zulu brothers. Rich, handsome, powerful, dangerous and the wealthiest and most powerful families in Johannesburg, Zandile is the wife of the first brother Nkosana, their love story is like a South African township Romeo and Juliet. Their families hate each other but their love is so strong, it endures all the hatred, the deaths and even prison time.
When Louw Roodt vanishes after a work function, Kristien Liebenberg’s worst fear comes true: her lover isn’t coming home. Has Louw been in an accident? Is she having an affair? Has she been hijacked, assaulted, or worse, left for dead in the bushes and sand dunes of the Cape Flats? Or has it got something to do with their argument that morning? Then news breaks of a murdered man found in a Cape hotel – the same hotel Louw was last seen in, on the same night. And it’s the very man who was the speaker at her work function. Was Louw involved in the murder? Is she on the run? That’s what the police say. Or is there a connection to her mother’s hijacking 21 years ago, an event which left Louw psychologically scarred? Amid all these questions and a rising sense of dread, Kristien knows Louw is in trouble, and she needs her help.
1001 nagte, 1001 wonders, 1001 gevare. Wanneer Herman Swart se tweelingsuster Herma onverwags sterf, val ’n deel van hom weg. Hy raak toenemend eensaam en onttrek in ’n węreld van ou films. Hy sien haar in sy eie spieëlbeeld en hoor haar op ongeleë tye. ’n Bykomende traumatiese ervaring versplinter sy węreld finaal en Herman verval in ’n diep koma. Hy bevind homself binne-in ’n avontuur, ’n nagmerrie, ’n węreld waarin droom, fantasie, film, vervolgverhale, musiek en die gotiese ineenvleg. In hierdie vreemde, magiese realisme beweeg hy tussen plekke, ontmoet verskeie karakters en word weggelok deur die prinses, ’n meisie wat baie aan Herma herinner. François Bloemhof het al plaaslik en węreldwyd vir talle literęre eerstes gesorg, maar met hierdie unieke lees-luister-en-kyk-ervaring oortref hy homself. Die duisend en eerste nag het geen geduld met ou, veilige storiegrense nie.
Four thirty-something girlfriends navigate the complexities of love and
life in upmarket Johannesburg. Nomzamo yearns to have her own child,
but her husband keeps postponing. Is he truly too busy or is something
else going on? Kioni is in seventh heaven when Michael finally wants to
commit. But does he really? Or is he just trying to get back into her
bed? Single mom Jazmine has sworn off love – until a charming new
doctor arrives at her hospital, testing her resolve. And Asanda,
fiercely independent and at the top of her game, is determined to find
the perfect man to match her perfect life. As their lives twist and
tangle in unexpected ways, these four women will discover that love is
never simple – but always worth it.
Twyfelbos is ’n meesleurende historiese roman wat afspeel in die
Overberge in die vroeë agtienhonderds. |
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